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People Killed During the Troubles (Northern Ireland): Eamon Collins, Denis Donaldson, Dominic Mcglinchey, George Seawright, James Mcdade |
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English |
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Paperback |
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56 |
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2010-05-23 |
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1156710782 |
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Books LLC |
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0.21 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.12 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Eamon Collins, Denis Donaldson, Dominic Mcglinchey, George Seawright, James Mcdade, Thomas Begley, Robert Hamill, Ronnie Bunting, Quinn Brothers, Tommy Herron, Thomas 'ta' Power, Gino Gallagher, Jimmy Brown. Excerpt: Denis Martin Donaldson (Short Strand , Belfast , Northern Ireland , 1950 4 April 2006 in County Donegal , Republic of Ireland ) was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and a member of Sinn Féin who was exposed in December 2005 as an informer in the employment of MI5 and the Special Branch of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (formerly the Royal Ulster Constabulary ). The Real IRA admitted responsibility for his murder.Political career Donaldson had a long history of involvement in Irish republicanism . He joined the IRA in the mid-1960s while still in his teens, well before the start of the Troubles . According to his former friend, Jim Gibney, writing in the Irish News , he was a local hero in Short Strand in 1970 because he took part in the IRA's defence of St. Matthew's chapel against a loyalist attack. See Battle of Saint Matthew's . He was a friend of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands . The two men served time together for paramilitary offences in Long Kesh in the 1970s.In 1981 he was arrested by French authorities at the airport at Orly along with fellow IRA volunteer, William "Blue" Kelly. The duo were using false passports and Donaldson said that they were returning from a guerrilla training camp in Lebanon . At the 1983 general election, Donaldson was the Sinn Féin candidate in Belfast East .In the late 1980s, he travelled to Lebanon again and held talks with both Lebanese Shia militias Hezbollah and Amal , in an effort to secure the freedom of the Irish hostage Brian Keenan . He also represented Sinn Féin in the United States , is...
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